"To achieve 45 seconds of CFD at 60 Hz, we used VisIt/Libsim in situ to create extracts that were 21X smaller than the volume files, wall clock times were 10X less to produce the XDB files (extracts) and transfer times and space requirements were also greatly reduced. We were then able to post-process in hours what had been taking days."

Intelligent Light will hold a one-day event on harnessing the power of HPC for CFD engineers. New methods for handling large CFD data sets will be presented with a special focus on using data computed on remote HPC resources. Case studies of innovative solutions in use by our clients today will provide concrete examples of how we can put the same technologies to work for you.

You will learn:

How extract-based workflows are being used in industry to unblock data bottlenecks

How in situ and extracts can help you increase fidelity: finer meshes, more transient time steps and the ability to explore more parametric options

How to take full advantage of remote HPC with a combination of local and remote rendering options and by leaving large files in place on remote systems

How automated report generation done in batch enables our clients to get the reports they need on time

We hope you will participate and learn how you can join the growing number of organizations that are Harnessing the power of HPC for success in CFD

The state of the art in HPC-driven CFD will be explored this May, at Parallel CFD (ParCFD) is Glasgow, Scotland, and Intelligent Light will share news from the front lines of CFD as it is used in production.

In a plenary session, Steve M. Legensky, Founder and General Manager of Intelligent Light, will present ​A Survey of Production Applications of In Situ Post-Processing to Enable HPC-Scale CFD", giving real world examples of how our clients are using in situ workflows designed by Intelligent Light to eliminate file transfer bottlenecks, allow increased fidelity and faster turnaround.

If you plan to participate at ParCFD we hope you will take the opportunity to meet with Steve Legensky and Earl Duque at the sessions mentioned above or at our table in the exhibit area. If you are not able to attend but would like to learn about in situ processing and workflow innovation for production CFD, please contact us.

ParCFD is an annual international conference devoted to recent developments in parallel computing and its applications to the field of CFD. The 29th International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics will take place at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland from 15-17 May 2017, at the flagship Technology and Innovation Centre.

Case studies of innovative solutions in use by our clients today will help you learn how to eliminate file transfer bottlenecks, increased fidelity and achieve faster turnaround in your CFD workflow.

Steve M. Legensky, Founder and General Manager of Intelligent Light, will present "Industrial Applications of in situ Post-Processing to Enable HPC-Scale CFD" during the HPC in Industry session on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 3:30 PM.

FieldView 16.1 update makes it easier than ever to produce high quality, portable movies for your presentations. Here are three improvements that work well together:

1 – MP4 - High Quality, Highly Portable, Small Size

FieldView will save movies in MP4 format with h264 encoding to ensure the highest portability without the confusion of countless video formats or the need for 3rd party converters and creates movies with a significantly smaller file size than older formats. This highly portable and efficient format is now the standard output in FieldView.

Go directly to PowerPoint and YouTube from FieldView using the MP4 format. No matter where you make your movie (Windows, Linux or MAC) it will look its best when you share and present it.

2 – Frame Rate Control

Use Frame Rate to speed up or slow down the playback of your movies. The Frame Rate can be set at between 1 and 60 Frames per Second (fps), is embedded in the saved MP4 and you can change the Frame Rate and save the movie again without having to regenerate the movie.

Select standard HD layouts including 1080p, 720p and 480p to get the size, aspect ratio, quality and file size you need.

Note that the Frame Rate video was saved at 720p. When you view it on YouTube you can adjust the settings to view the movie at up to 720p resolution.

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These three features work together to let you make movies that are high quality, portable and play well with PowerPoint, YouTube and a variety of media players to help you make the best possible presentation of your work.

Try it for yourself. These are just some of the new features FieldView users are excited about. If you have not upgraded to 16.1 yet, I encourage you to do so and then let us know what you think by sending an email to FieldView@ilight.com.